Samsung 850 EVO SATA III 2.5inch SSD Expert Reviews

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Reviewed on 2017-12-02

The latest entry level SSD from Samsung has no suffix and bears neither the PRO or EVO appellation. It is a new entry-level SATA SSD featuring Samsung's latest 64-layer 3D TLC NAND, making it a very close relative to the 850 EVO line.The SSD 850 120GB use...

Simple look, Serious performance, 5 year warranty vouch for the reliability of the TLC V-NAND technologyStill commands a premium pricing

The Samsung 850 EVO is by no means a new drive. It has been around for around two years by now, but it is still highly regarded as one of the fastest 2.5″ SATA SSDs you can buy now. We have here the 250GB variant which should offer just enough space for y...

If you want a fast drive without spending a lot, a 250GB SSD is an excellent choice nowadays. There is a lot to choose from in this affordable segment, with differing prices and performance levels. Therefore we compare 33 SSDs with this capacity in this a...

A general rule in the world of commerce: You can tell how successful a certain product is by the number of different ways you can buy it.For example, when you look at a car maker's lineup, you can often tell which model sells the most by the one offered i...

How many times have we heard that the there is no more performance left than can be derived from the SATA III interface? We hear it all the time, and we have been hearing it for a long time. It seems that people making that statement are focusing on one t...

At Flash Memory Summit earlier this year, Samsung announced their new 48-layer 3D V-NAND and along with that they announced that they'll be using the new NAND in their 850 EVO SSD, pushing capacities up to a staggering 4TB. Considering 1TB was the largest...

Now that the price per gigabyte of a lot of SSDs continues to go down, SSDs with more capacity become a lot more interesting. Right now 500 GB SSDs offer a lot for what they cost, making it interesting to take a closer look. Here we compare 20 2.5 inch...

Best in class performance (even outperforms competing MLC parts!), Performance oddities seen in the 2TB model are not present in 4TB, Best SATA performance in our new Mixed Burst testing

Everyone expects SSD makers to keep pushing out higher and higher capacity SSDs, but the thing holding them back is sufficient market demand for that capacity. With that, it appears Samsung has decided it was high time for a 4TB model of their 850 EVO. To...

Today, Samsung took the wraps off its latest model in the 850 EVO line of SSDs. Designed for masses, the 850 EVO might not be as flashy as Samsung's 850 EVO PRO, but it still boasts top-of-the-line features like Samsung's 3D V-NAND, 4GB of LPDDR2DRAM cach...

The Samsung 850 EVO series first hit the market in 2014, and we've already had one update to increase density to 2TB. Samsung doubles the previous consumer SSD capacity king with a new 4TB model that utilizes the latest V-NAND technology. The combination...

The Samsung 850 EVO series first hit the market in 2014, and we've already had one update to increase density to 2TB. Samsung doubles the previous consumer SSD capacity king with a new 4TB model that utilizes the latest V-NAND technology. The combination...

First launched in late 2014 , the Samsung 850 EVO has been one of the most successful storage products yet. With so many sold and consumers demanding more capacity, they initially expanded their capacity range to 2TB last year , however, if you thought a...

Because the price per gigabyte keeps getting lower, SSDs with a smaller capacity have not been covered as much. However there are still scenarios in which it is not necessary to pay more for a bigger capacity. Therefore we take a look at 17 SSDs with a...

SSDs are continuously dropping in price, and the Samsung 850 Evo not a new SSD to the market, but with falling prices now competes with some of the budget drives out there. As Samsung make most of the chips within the market, it's interesting to see how...

For a long time the operating system was pretty much the only thing installed on an SSD, while everything else, e.g. games, was installed on a secondary hard drive. With the falling pice of SSDs it is becoming more and more common to store more data on...

Samsung's plan is to enable higher capacities with this new flash (think 4TB 850 EVO and PRO), they also intend to silently push that same flash down into the smaller capacities of those same lines. Samsung's VP of Marketing assured me that they would not...

Solid-state drives are something that I can rarely get enough of, as high performance storage has a big impact on the time spent waiting on a computer to get data-heavy tasks done. As someone who has enjoyed this, I had four assorted 256Gb or smaller SSDs...

Tons of capacity, great price per GB, good performance, endurance, and warranty, SATA is ubiquitous.2TB SSDs are still expensive, not as fast as PCIe solutions, SATA is limiting

We have a double-header going on today, with reviews of both 2TB Samsung drives—see the Samsung 850 Pro 2TB review here . Originally listed with an MSRP of $1,000, the 850 Pro 2TB has since come down to more palatable levels—not that $875 is affordable fo...

The latest Linux disk testing fun at Phoronix has been stressing two Samsung 850 EVO solid-state drives on the Linux 4.4 kernel when using the native RAID capabilities built into the Btrfs file-system.As it's been a while since last running any Btrfs RAID...

Personal computing has advanced considerably when compared to the original Altair 8800 that Bill Gates used in the Seventies to demonstrate Altair BASIC, the first program to be sold by the newly created Microsoft. One aspect that has changed dramatically...

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